Africa

Our media release for Intersex Awareness Day has resulted in coverage in some LGBTI media both in Australia and overseas, for which we’re grateful. Gina Wilson, ILGA-Europe, and a media release by Transgender and Intersex Africa are quoted in this report by Gay Star News. TIA comment: ‘TIA believes that this day is a great… Read more →

UGANDAN LGBTI human rights activist David Kato was brutally murdered just over a year ago and fellow African LGBTI activist Sokari Ekine writes a letter to the man who was so beloved and continues to be remembered by many. In the face of the widespread exclusion of intersex people from human rights reforms in the so-called global north, it is… Read more →

Announcement: Transitioning Africa GENDER DynamiX (GDX) and the Support Initiative for People with atypical sexual Development (SIPD) have taken their collaboration in the Exchange Programmes in 2010 and 2011 a step further and, together with Transgender and Intersex Africa (TIA), will concentrate its efforts mainly on advocacy in Sub-Saharan Africa. Forming the tripartite will further solidify… Read more →

THE case of Richard Muasya, a Kenyan intersex person who has been persecuted by the state for being intersex, forcing him into a life of crime in order to survive, is reported on by the African Activist website. The report includes a link to the judges’ ruling: A landmark court case filed by Richard Muasya,… Read more →

FEMALE genital mutilation (FGM) remains entrenched in many parts of the world, alongside intersex genital mutilation (IGM). FGM is more commonly practised outside the so-called first world whereas IGM is more commonly carried out in the so-called first world. OII regards both practices as violations of human rights and human bodies. We call on all… Read more →

THE stories of several LGBTI Africans persecuted for being born LGBTI. Zimbabwean refugee Tatenda Ngwaru believed she was a gay male, then became persuaded she was actually a transgender woman, then finally learned she is really intersex after fleeing to South Africa. Ms Ngwaru has now returned to Zimbabwe where she faces homophobic persecution for… Read more →

JUDGMENT has been deferred in a case in which an intersex convict is seeking legal recognition and release from jail. … Muasya, who was born with both male and female genitals, but passes off as a man, says he has been unable to get a birth certificate and, as a result, cannot achieve his academic… Read more →

UGANDAN LGBTI human rights activist Frank Mugisha has received the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for 2011. Congratulations, Frank! Frank Mugisha, a prominent young advocate for the rights of sexual minorities in Uganda, has been chosen to receive the prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award. Mr. Mugisha is the Executive Director of Sexual… Read more →